UK 'proposes customs centres on both sides of border'

[Zigenare]

Inneresting view you have there

Personally I think most of the 17.4 million were lied to and were too dumb to distinguish between truth and lies, but I respect your view, if that's what you really think

Give a percentage.

[sasguru]

Give a percentage.

Before I give you a percentage can I ask a question?
Do you think people of under average intelligence are capable of making a decision about something as complex as EU membership?

[original PM]

Before I give you a percentage can I ask a question?
Do you think people of under average intelligence are capable of making a decision about something as complex as EU membership?

Define under average.

Or are you saying the vote should only be given to a select few?

[sasguru]

Define under average.

Perhaps you're too stupid to take part in this conversation?
Under average is a pretty simple concept. It is exactly what is says, under the average.

[sasguru]

Or are you saying the vote should only be given to a select few?

It used to be, when Britain was at its greatest. Think about that.

[Zigenare]

Before I give you a percentage can I ask a question?
Do you think people of under average intelligence are capable of making a decision about something as complex as EU membership?

Define intelligence and provide an effective means of measuring it.

[sasguru]

Define intelligence and provide an effective means of measuring it.

FFS. Do you own fooking research. There's a reason you're not a mover and shaker.

[Zigenare]

FFS. Do you own fooking research. There's a reason you're not a mover and shaker.

So you don't know.

[original PM]

Perhaps you're too stupid to take part in this conversation?
Under average is a pretty simple concept. It is exactly what is says, under the average.

The average IQ in the UK is 100 according to this

BBC - Test The Nation - Results

So i suppose that clears that up then.

also this is actually quite an interesting read.

Are Brexit voters really less intelligent than Remainers? — Institute of Economic Affairs

[Old Greg]

The average IQ in the UK is 100 according to this

BBC - Test The Nation - Results

So i suppose that clears that up then.

also this is actually quite an interesting read.

Are Brexit voters really less intelligent than Remainers? — Institute of Economic Affairs

Interesting read until you realise the IEA's hard Brexit agenda. From wiki:

Since Britain voted to leave the European Union (Brexit) by March 2019, the IEA has lobbied consistently for a hard Brexit without customs and regulatory alignment, etc.; a report it published in July 2018 proposed using Brexit to remove rules protecting agency workers, to deregulate finance, annul the rules on hazardous chemicals and weaken food labelling laws.

The IEA supports privatising the National Health Service (NHS); campaigns against controls on junk food; attacks trades unions; and defends zero-hour contracts, unpaid internships and tax havens. Its staff frequently appear on BBC television promoting these positions.

Concerns about political independence; investigation
David Davis, Steve Baker and Lord Callanan, ministers at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) at the time, all recorded meetings with the IEA in the first three months of 2018. The Observer reported on 29 July 2018 that the director of the IEA was secretly recorded in May and June telling an undercover reporter that funders could get to know ministers on first-name terms and that his organisation was in "the Brexit influencing game". While seeking funding, Littlewood said that the IEA allowed donors to affect the "salience" of reports and to shape "substantial content". The recording was to be given to the Charity Commission on 30 July.

The Charity Commission, considering that the allegations raised by the recordings were "of a serious nature", on 20 July 2018 opened a regulatory compliance case into the IEA due to concerns about its political independence, after it became known that it offered potential US donors access to ministers while raising funds for research to promote free-trade deals favoured by proponents of a "hard Brexit". The Commission has powers to examine IEA financial records, legally compel it to provide information, and to disqualify trustees. The IEA denies it has breached charity law.

The register of lobbyists was also considering whether the IEA should be registered. It was also revealed that, after the IEA published a report recommending more casinos, the casino industry donated £8,000 to the IEA.

Jon Trickett, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, welcoming the investigation into the IEA, said "on the road to Brexit, a small group of establishment figures, funded to the tune of millions, are covertly pursuing a political campaign in favour of extreme free trade, acting in effect as lobbyists for secretive corporate interests. ... there are serious questions that high-ranking Conservative ministers must now answer about their dealings with the IEA."

It was also revealed that Jersey Finance, representing financial interests in Jersey, paid for an IEA report saying that tax havens (such as Jersey) benefited the wider economy, and did not diminish tax revenues in other countries. The report recommended that their status be protected. The IEA did not disclose the funding from Jersey Finance. A similar IEA report about neighbouring Guernsey was funded by the financial services industry there. Following these revelations, the IEA said that funding they received never influenced the conclusions of reports, and that their output was independent and free from conflict of interest.